Reversing The Chicken And The Egg

"When you have a pitcher who has 17 walks in 17 innings, you have to play good defense." -Snoop Manuel (paraphrased), after the Mets latest loss to the Nationals.That may be the stupidest thing uttered by anybody on Planet Earth since spring training started.Although it was pretty funny when Omar Minaya was in the SNY booth on Tuesday night (no Doc Halladay spin control there ... puuuuuuuuuure coincidence) talking about "Oh, Jeff Francoeur is a great player, we can mold Jeff Francoeur, we traded for Jeff Francoeur with confidence", and right at that moment ..."Francoeur drops the ball!!!"And Omar Minaya went silent like he was about to morph into Herbert Morrison ... "Oh the humanity!"And I thought that was going to be the funniest thing I heard all night until Snoop blamed the defense for Oliver Perez's existence. Yeah, it's Jeff Francoeur's fault that he was daydreaming about throwing the winning touchdown for Parkview High Schoo...